I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
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